 | William Phelan - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile BOTH PARENTS from the sky ! ' From 1823.,... | |
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Note 4, page 18. When the last lingering friend hath bade farewell. See Pope's Epistle to Robert, Earl... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile ONE PARENT from the sky ! In the discharge of this important duty towards the aged, the fair sex have more especially distinguished... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky." COUNCIL OF HORSES. A FABLE. UPON a time, a neighing Steerl, Who grazed among... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...Henry, Lord Brougham.' Written by himself. VoL ip 12. ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock tho cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky.' Pope's deformity came from his father ; and, as regards personal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky! (line 408) The first extant version of this passage, described in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
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Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore... 
